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1:
01) Jack Straw,
02) Bertha,
03) Me & My Uncle>
04) Big River,
05) Roses,
06) Memphis Blues,
07) Help>
08) Slipknot>
09) Franklin's

2:
01) Playin>
02) Ship Of Fools>
03) Playin reprise>
04) Uncle John>
05) Let It Grow>
06) Jam>
07) Drumz>
08) Space>
09) GDTRFB>
10) Stella Blue>
11) Around
12) E: Mighty Quinn

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Reviewer: reviewr - - December 30, 2012
Subject: Great AUD, solid performance.
This Aud sounds like a SBD.

The show is solid. Only Let It Grow> Jam stand out. The rest is real good, but not worth much comment.

Reviewer: JamsOnly - - November 20, 2012
Subject: 9/19/90
Highlights: Jack Straw, Jam, Stella Blue

Reviewer: tony_s - - September 20, 2011
Subject: The Human "Mike" Stand
Great job moke. :)

Reviewer: gd6265 - - September 19, 2011
Subject: WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome show. energy is incredible! bobbys high notes in memphis blus are crazy and jerry is sooooooooooo on. this show gives me the total goose bumps. scale of 1-10.... 10+++++. and i didnt even listen to second set yet! gotta have a smoke and relax after that great first set,

Reviewer: BeckMan - - February 20, 2011
Subject: Strong show
Nice show, especially considering the circumstances.

@ feather: Check your dates, bro. Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990)

Thanks for the recording.

Reviewer: ice9freak - - February 15, 2011
Subject: Sorry, man... No Brent.
Just downloaded this to the to-listen stack (will have to come back and post a review after hearing it.)

Sorry to the reviewer below, but Brent was gone by this time. :(

Reviewer: feather0926 - - September 22, 2010
Subject: Great show great setlist II
My all time favorite Brent show EVER!!! Bruce inspired GREAT playing but more importantly he interacted excellently with Jerry. By the way this audience is EXCELLENT. Thank you. Peace

Reviewer: snow_and_rain - - September 20, 2009
Subject: Great show. Great setlist
However, several tracks are mislabeled here.

- Playin Reprise is actually included in the Ship of Fools track.

- The track labeled "Playin Reprise" is actually UJB.

- The track labeled "Uncle John's Band" is actually Let it Grow

- The track labeled "Let it Grow" is actually "Jam."

and so on...

Still, great show. Jerry's voice is a little haggard, but his playing is top-notch for the era. Incredible setlist, with a second set LIG. Nice!

Reviewer: nigeldavahah - - August 19, 2009
Subject: I love this one
bRUCE !!!

Reviewer: Sir-Mix-Alot - - May 29, 2009
Subject: Great sounding Audience
This is a great sounding audience recording...it is even better than the soundboards available for this concert. Great energy from the band, and an overall good performance. We all harbor some disdain for post-Brent Dead, but Bruce Hornsby lit a fire under the band for the short time he was there. I have this theory that had Bruce stuck around, Jerry would have been more musically pysched and might not have hit the Persian heroin quite as hard.

Reviewer: revjustin - - May 29, 2009
Subject: Smokin'
Simply put, this is a smokin' show. Coupled with an AMAZING quality recording, you cannot - I repeat - cannot go wrong with this show. Even if you are not a fan of later era GD, this show cannot disappoint you. If it does, you should think about your priorities ;)

Reviewer: tezro - - April 2, 2009
Subject: Sounds great
This is a very interesting show with some really transcendent moments. Personally, I feel a bit sad listening to it because it represented this miraculous renaissance for the band that was so unexpected, and didn't really last. There was so much to look forward to after this show, but that promise was only fulfilled fitfully over the next year, and by 92 it was a distant memory. If only Bruce could have stuck around...

The Let it Grow is sensational, and the melodic interplay between Hornsby and Garcia that follows is very delicate and inventive. They seem to come close to breaking into "Dear Prudence" towards the end of the jam. GDTRFB is great too.

A GREAT audience recording, download it right away.

Reviewer: OldSchoolJersey - - March 23, 2009
Subject: Oh Man
In Blair Jackson's book "Garcia: An American Life" he takes the liberty of saying that this night -- and the next night 9/20/90 -- represented two of the best, most monumental shows of the modern age...and he couldn't be more correct. Not sure why the reviewer below said that Jack Straw was good (warts and all) -- this, IMHO, is the single BEST Jack Straw performed EVER. And the rest of the show is no slouch either...longest Franklin's Tower ever, first 2nd set Let It Grow in ages...whole band is smoking. Download and enjoy. Gracias to the Archive

Reviewer: TheWaY - - May 2, 2008
Subject: This was a good surprise
To be honest, I am not a big fan of post Brent Dead. Sure, there are shows that I like, but overall I don't spend too much time here. I have always struggled with that Vince organ sound that he first brought to the band. I liked his playing when he switched to the piano sound years later. But this show was a pleasant surprise in a whole bunch of ways. I will give you three, just three quick thoughts.

First, the opener is hot. Warts and all, both the band and the audience, and Bruce Hornsby, are clearly having fun playing and singing Jack Straw.

Secondly, the Playing> Ship of Fools>Space>Uncle Johns> Playing> Let it Grow> Trio is really something that busts out of the normal Grateful Dead pattern. Its a good lineup of songs, not the best but very well played and fun to hear.

Thirdly, the space jam out of Let It Grow. This is some of the best stuff the Grateful Dead ever did. Stuff like this, if only for for a few minutes, is pure heaven...and no one else can do it like them. After 15 years of the Dead, I love "discovering" moments like this. You can clearly hear a new band member, Bruce Hornsby, playing musical gotcha with Jerry Garcia. Its fabulous.

Thank you Archive for hosting this.

Reviewer: sfsueny - - January 9, 2008
Subject: happy happy happy
fabulous show - excellent sound. I'm listening on earphones (Bose) plugged into my laptop at work - tears running down my face. Garcia sounds so good in Jack Straw. I'm not sure if I was at this show or another in this series at MSG...but man it rocks. And makes me miss them even more.

Reviewer: william tell the third - - December 24, 2007
Subject: DOWNLOAD THIS
Great sound. The B&K's really grabbed Phil's bass for this whole show. It was great to hear the taper talking about that-I guess he listened quick to what he had on tape just before the Quinn encore. The kind of tape that really makes you wish you were there......

If you don't get it by the time you arrive at the GDTRFB in this show, you never will. What a great second set and close out to this show. The energy of the GDTRFB coupled to the delicate rendering of the Stella causes major goosebumps.

I'm stuck at work tonight on christmas eve and this show just put a huge smile on my face. Thanks Jerry. Thanks to the tapers and thanks to the guys that put this out on archive.

Reviewer: Evan S. Hunt - - December 23, 2007
Subject: Beautiful Audience Recording
This is a very wonderful recording of a very wonderfully well-played show.

Thank you, tdarian and Mike French, and thank you, Archives.